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...(A)(1) When a county treasurer receives a certificate from a county auditor pursuant to division (A) of section 5711.32 of the Revised Code charging the treasurer with the collection of an amount of taxes due as the result of a deficiency assessment, the treasurer shall immediately prepare and mail a tax bill to the taxpayer owing such tax. The tax bill shall contain the name of the taxpayer; the taxable value, ta...

...Annually, on or before the fifteenth day of January, the following lists, verified by the president, vice-president, secretary, or the treasurer of the corporation required to file such list, shall be filed with the department of taxation, in such form as the tax commissioner prescribes: (A) Each corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for profit shall file with the department a list of its shareholder...

...Each trust or other unincorporated issuer of a money market investment sold to residents of this state in the preceding calendar year shall file a list of all its investors in the same manner as required by section 5711.34 of the Revised Code. No issuer of a money market investment, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that fails to comply with the requirements of this section or section 5711.34 of the Revised Co...

...If necessary, the board of county commissioners may provide for the appointment of a resident deputy county treasurer and fix his compensation.

...The tax commissioner or the county auditor shall place on file in alphabetical order all returns of taxable property and all assessment certificates, and shall carefully preserve them until five years after the taxes represented thereby have been paid, or litigation concerning the same has been settled, when he shall destroy them.

...(A) Each county shall be the unit for assessing real estate for taxation purposes. The county auditor shall be the assessor of all the real estate in the auditor's county for purposes of taxation, but this section does not affect the power conferred by Chapter 5727. of the Revised Code upon the tax commissioner regarding the valuation and assessment of real property used in railroad operations. (B) The audito...

...If the county auditor determines under section 5713.01 of the Revised Code that the construction of a dwelling on a previously vacant parcel of land is now available for use or that an additional dwelling is constructed on a parcel of land and is now available for use, the county auditor, by ordinary mail, shall send to the owner of the dwelling a notice that the applicant may apply for a reduction in taxes und...

...(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Mass appraisal project" means any sexennial reappraisal, triennial update, or other revaluation of all real property or the valuation of newly constructed real property in accordance with section 5713.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Qualified project manager" means a person who plans, manages, coordinates, and controls the execution of a mass appraisal project under the direction...

...An assessor, from the maps and descriptions furnished him by the county auditor and other sources of information, shall make a correct and pertinent description of each tract and lot of real property in his district. When he deems it necessary to obtain an accurate description of any separate tract or lot in his district, he may require the owner or occupier thereof to furnish such description, with any title papers ...

... The county auditor, from the best sources of information available, shall determine, as nearly as practicable, the true value of the fee simple estate, as if unencumbered but subject to any effects from the exercise of police powers or from other governmental actions, of each separate tract, lot, or parcel of real property and of buildings, structures, and improvements located thereon and the current agricultural us...

... (A) As used in this section, "federally subsidized residential rental property" means property to which one or more of the following apply: (1) It is part of a qualified low-income housing project, through its compliance and extended use period, as those terms are defined in section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, or any other period during which it is similarly restricted under section 42 of the Internal Revenu...

...Each separate parcel of real property shall be valued at its taxable value, excluding the value of the crops, deciduous and evergreen trees, plants, and shrubs growing thereon, and taking into account the diminution in value as the result of the existence of any conservation easement created under sections 5301.67 to 5301.69 of the Revised Code. The price for which such real property would sell at auction or forced s...

...Each separate parcel of real property shall be classified by the county auditor according to its principal, current use. Vacant lots and tracts of land upon which there are no structures or improvements shall be classified in accordance with their location and their highest and best probable legal use. In the case of lands containing or producing minerals, the minerals or any rights to the minerals that are lis...

...On or before the thirty-first day of March, annually, the county auditor shall make a list of petroleum, oil, and natural gas wells, coal and ore mines, limestone quarries, fireclay pits, and works designed for the production of minerals which have been begun or constructed since the last preceding appraisal. If, by reason of the discovery of such minerals, the construction of such works, the commencement of such op...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Oil" means all grades of crude oil. (2) "Gas" means all forms of natural gas. (3) "Well" means an oil or gas well or an oil and gas well. (4) "M.C.F." means one thousand cubic feet. (5) "Commonly metered wells" means two or more wells that share the same meter. (6) "Total production" means the total amount of oil, measured in barrels, and the total amount of gas, measured in M...

...Where the fee of the soil and the minerals, or part of either, of a lot or parcel of land has been previously assessed for taxation in the name of the same person, but the title to the fee of the soil is in one or more persons and the title to such minerals, or any right to the minerals, is in another person, the county auditor shall ascertain the aggregate value of such lot or parcel of land and the minerals or righ...

...The county auditor, at the time of making the assessment of real property subject to taxation, shall enter in a separate list pertinent descriptions of all burying grounds, public schoolhouses, houses used exclusively for public worship, institutions of purely public charity, real property used exclusively for a home for the aged, as defined in section 5701.13 of the Revised Code, public buildings and property ...

... (A) The county auditor shall make a list of all real and personal property in the auditor's county that is exempted from taxation. Such list shall show the name of the owner, the value of the property exempted, and a statement in brief form of the ground on which such exemption has been granted. It shall be corrected annually by adding thereto the items of property which have been exempted during the year, and by st...

...(A) No application for real property tax exemption and tax remission shall be filed with, or considered by, the tax commissioner or county auditor in which tax remission is requested for more than three tax years, and the commissioner or auditor shall not remit more than three years' taxes, penalties, and interest. (B) All taxes, penalties, and interest, that have been delinquent for more than three years, ap...

... (A) Whenever the county auditor reenters an item of property to the tax list as provided in section 5713.08 of the Revised Code and there has been no conveyance of the property between separate entities, the auditor shall send notice to the owner of the property e ither by certified mail or, if the auditor has record of an internet identifier of record associated with the owner, by ordinary mail and by that internet...

... (A) The owner of property appearing on the exempt list shall notify the county auditor, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner, if the use of the property changes from the use stated on the application for exemption filed for the property. The notification shall be filed with the county auditor on or before the last day of the tax year for which the property's use so changes. Upon receipt of the notification, ...

...The board of county commissioners may designate the county engineer to provide for making, correcting, and keeping up to date a complete set of tax maps of the county, and shall employ the necessary number of assistants. Such maps shall show all original lots and parcels of land, and all divisions, subdivisions, and allotments thereof, with the name of the owner of each original lot or parcel and of each division, su...

...The county engineer shall appoint the necessary draftsmen and fix the salary thereof, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners. The salaries of the assistants shall be paid out of the county treasury in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are paid.

...The county auditor shall ascertain from the owner or his agent the amount of the mortgage indebtedness upon each tract and lot in any district. The blanks necessary for the purpose of this section and sections 5713.02 and 5713.03 of the Revised Code shall be furnished by the auditor and paid for by the board of county commissioners out of the county treasury.

...When an original survey, section, tract, or lot has become divided into such small parcels or fractions so that the description of the several parts thereof is indefinite and doubtful, the county auditor when appraising any such survey, section, tract, or lot, or part thereof, shall cause the said section, or such parts thereof as are necessary, to be accurately platted and laid out into such subdivisions as the diff...